Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Brawl Tournaments Storm the Country

February 14, 2008

Nintendo's Super Smash Bros.
Brawl Tournaments Storm the Country

Nintendo and Best Buy Team Up to
Crown a National Champion

Attention all Smash fans: Put up
your dukes! Just before the launch of the much-anticipated Super Smash Bros.(R)
Brawl, Mario(TM) and friends are hosting four regional Wii(TM) tournaments. The
competitions will visit Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston and finally New York
for a Midnight Madness Launch event at the Best Buy store at 622 Broadway in New
York. All of the 256 participants at each location will receive a $10 Best Buy
gift card. One lucky grand prize winner will receive a custom-designed,
crystal-covered Wii, a home theater system from Best Buy and other prizes.

"Super Smash Bros. is one of the
world's most popular game franchises because it draws in characters from across
the Nintendo universe and beyond for some all-out fighting fun," said Cammie
Dunaway, Nintendo of America's executive vice president of sales & marketing.
"Super Smash Bros. Brawl has extreme appeal among our core audience, but these
tournaments are a great way to get new fans involved as well -- before the game
is even available in stores."

Each regional tournament will
provide the first 256 people in attendance the chance to "brawl" one-on-one with
other contestants in a single-elimination tournament to determine a winner in
each market. Regional winners will face off in a final multiplayer "brawl" at
the New York City tournament.

The grand prize winner will receive
a crystal-coated Wii with a design from Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a home theater
system from Best Buy and a copy of the game. The second-place finisher will
receive one Wii system and Wii Remote, one copy of Super Smash Bros. Brawl and a
$1,000 Best Buy gift card. The third-place finisher will receive a Wii and Wii
Remote, a copy of the game and a $500 Best Buy gift card. The fourth-place
finisher will receive a Wii, an extra Wii Remote, a copy of the game and a $250
Best Buy gift card. For more information about the tournaments, visit
Nintendo.com.

March 8 Doors open at 5 p.m. Best
Buy (NOHO) 622 Broadway New York, NY 10012

Super Smash Bros. Brawl features
dozens of Nintendo characters, from Mario to Link(TM) to Pikachu(R), as well as
new characters like Solid Snake, a gritty soldier from Konami's hugely popular
Metal Gear series, and Sonic The Hedgehog. The combat-filled game lets
characters of all kinds brawl until only one is left standing. Its predecessor,
Super Smash Bros.(R) Melee, was the best-selling game of all time for Nintendo
GameCube(TM). Super Smash Bros. Brawl has more characters, more features and
more action-packed fun. What's more, Super Smash Bros. Brawl uses Nintendo(R)
Wi-Fi Connection, which allows up to four players to simultaneously brawl no
matter where they are based. For a complete list of characters and features,
visit
http://www.SmashBros.com.